the ReDecision

Women, am I right?

He is the best right handed hitter in baseball history. A player's willingness to sign autographs or cuddle with sports media types should not reflect positively or negatively on a truly historic career. Your comment belongs in the Hall of Stupid.

Exhibit A in the downfall of the great American society: Stephen A. Smith's continued employment and platform at a major media outlet.

it appeals to dumbfucks who are free to watch TV at 10 AM

Sure we do, Sean.

They are extremely profitable, there's just no need to round up private investors (who, you know, may want to see a return on that investment some day) when you can just shake down your local municipality, county, and/or state government for a big box of cash in return for nothing other than a fickle, non-binding…

Kenya's not in the Rust Belt!!!

You're aware that you're allowed to travel to New York City, right? I've lived in Chicago my whole life, been to NYC many times. They don't lock us in at night.

Samer, you were born after 1988?

Appreciate you thinking of us, Roger, but we already have enough criminals here in Chicago, you can keep your Pacman Joneses and Jim Irsays in NYC, thanks.

"Rings, the only stat that counts."

No he's not, he's a pro athlete. He's like a guy you worked with who left for one company then decided to come back when he was offered more. This is his business, sports aren't personal for pro athletes.

They didn't quit on Bobby V.? David Ortiz didn't flunk his PED test in 2003? There wasn't that entire drama over the fried chicken & beer stuff guys like Beckett and Lackey were doing?

It's no more fact or fiction than any of this anonymous stuff the Red Sawx media is spewing at AJ today now that he's out of their…

The flip side, of course, is that the Red Sox clubhouse is made up of players who knowingly quit on a former manager, rally around a known steroid user, and got all defensive at the notion that eating fried chicken, drinking beer, and playing video games before and during games was a bad idea.

Speed limits

The North Side denial never ever gets old

Of course, the flip to that is that the film's star and co-writer is from the suburbs of Chicago, where a trip to Niagara Falls would never require a stop in Louisville. I think you guys are getting too caught up in the usual URGH THERES MORE TO ILLINOIS THAN CHICAGO stuff than you're missing the overall point of…

You're aware the guy who wrote this is originally from Illinois outside of Cook County, right?